Veteran Assamese scribe Prafulla Chandra Barua dies

Veteran journalist of Assam Prafulla Chandra Barua died on Monday at a private hospital in Guwahati. He was 75.

The prominent journalist died at around 2:55 pm on Monday.

Barua was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital for various ailments.

Prafulla Chandra Barua started out as a staff reporter cum sub editor in Natun Asomiya, an assamese daily news paper in 1963 and had wenton to serve as an editor in Janambhumi, Dainik Janambhumi, Dainik Asom, Rongpur, Uddipon.